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America’s largest documentary festival has announced the full line-up for its seventh edition, running from November 10-17. The line-up includes 18 world premieres and 19 US premieres.
The festival will open with Matt Tyrnauer's Citizen Jane: Battle For The City and close with Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, directed by John Scheinfeld.
In addition to the feature films below, there is a shorts programme.
View Films by Strand:
- American Perspectives
- Art & Design
- Behind The Scenes
- Docs Redux
- Fight The Power
- Galas
- International Perspectives
- Jock Docs
- Metropolis
- Modern Family
- Science Non-Fiction
- Short List
- Sonic Cinema
- Special Events
- True Crime
- Viewpoints
- Wild Life
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DOC NYC Latest Reviews
![City Of Joy](/images/stills/c/city_of_joy_2016.jpg)
A chronicle of resilience as female survivors of violence create a revolutionary community in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
![Big Sonia](/images/stills/b/big_sonia_2016.jpg)
A Holocaust survivor with an outsized personality faces her biggest fear: retirement.
![Thy Father's Chair](/images/stills/t/thy_fathers_chair_2015.jpg)
Orthodox Jewish identical twin hoarders finally allow a cleaning crew to save their Brooklyn home.
![The Graduation](/images/stills/g/graduation_2016_f99uNJt.jpg)
A documentary about selection procedures at cinema school La Fémis in Paris.
![Swim Team](/images/stills/s/swim_team_2016.jpg)
The Jersey Hammerheads is a competitive swim team made up of a diverse group of teens on the autism spectrum.
![Citizen Jane: Battle For The City](/images/stills/c/citizen_jane_battle_for_the_city_2016.jpg)
In the 1960s, writer and activist Jane Jacobs fights against NYC’s most ruthless power broker, Robert Moses, and his draconian urban redevelopment plans.
![Letters From Baghdad](/images/stills/l/letters_from_baghdad_2016.jpg)
The story of Gertrude Bell, who shaped the destiny of Iraq after the First World War.
![David Lynch: The Art Life](/images/stills/d/david_lynch_the_art_life_2016.jpg)
Documentary about the American filmmaker.
![Tony Conrad: Completely In The Present](/images/stills/t/tony_conrad_completely_in_the_present_2016.jpg)
Documentary about groundbreaking avant-garde multimedia artist Tony Conrad, whose work in experimental film and video, music and sound art spans more than 50 years.
![Girl Unbound: The War To Be Her](/images/stills/g/girl_unbound_the_war_to_be_her_2016.jpg)
A young woman represents Pakistan on the national squash team, despite the Taliban's threats.
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